Wisdom: Do not be vain

O man, do not be vain, thinking that you are the most learned,
that no one else has learned as much as you. Realize that there is
One who is learned to the learned and mighty to the mighty.
Realize that there is an eternal God who is good to the good.

If you fail to do so, some day, just as a mighty elephant can trip
over a tiny blade of grass, all your learning can be destroyed by an
ant-sized particle of the force of the karmic ignorance of illusion.
It is possible to be destroyed by even an atomic fraction of the
force of that maya, and all your learning would be lost.

Muhaiyaddeen, M.R. Bawa. The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh. Philadelphia:Fellowship Press, 1981, 2006